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Hi Crooked Foresters! There’s so much happening, that I need to slow down long enough to write it down. Here’s an update that comes with an open invitation to Get Involved with any of these projects that might interest you. Because we need some help to make all this happen. Lastly, our last post toldContinue reading “Projects for 2023”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xdjup-131efb3 Joe is an author, educator, architect and artist and our newest Board member! He has thirty years of architectural experience with a focus on ecological design, green building and sustainable community design. Join us as we discuss our Neighborhood design.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bejv6-131db3b Join us for the Crooked Forest Podcast I’m your host, Holly Noonan, and we will be discussing affordable housing for sensitive people and all aspects of paradigm-changing trends in natural building and how it relates to your health, like living in neighborhoods designed specifically for the microbiome. We’ll also explore creative solutions for affordableContinue reading “Welcome to the Crooked Forest Podcast!”

Guess what! We were expecting to wait until mid-April 2023 before hearing about approval of our 501(c)3 application and it came in the mail this week. We have no idea why it was fast-tracked, other than that the world is ready for this idea and the wind is at our backs. We have be VERYContinue reading “We’re 501(c)3 Official 🎉”

A month has sped by since our launch party. During this past month, in addition to continuing to meet local experts in natural building, water catchment, permaculture and architecture, we have officially welcomed Anita Budhraja and Jeff Goin onto our Advisory Council. Read more about them here. Our Articles of Incorporation have been accepted byContinue reading “Moving Forward”

This has been a super fun month, meeting with natural building folks, ecovillagers, board members and advisors. We filed the Articles of Incorporation with the State of New Mexico! Tonight we are having a launch party to just celebrate the evolution of affordable housing in the state of New Mexico and raise money to fileContinue reading “Launch Party Time”

What a week. I have had some dazzling conversations about this project and how it might fit into a larger aspiration to manifest an sustainable-building affordable-housing neighborhood here in our fair city of Silver City? Would efforts to that end be a diversion? Decidedly not, if it results in more housing options for sensitive people.Continue reading “I love this project”

Hello all! Right now, what’s happening is this website. I am articulating my vision, sharing it with people and seeing if it resonates. If it resonates, we will move forward with assembling a board of directors, an advisory council and incorporating as a 501c3. We will start to explore hiring a grant writer and raisingContinue reading “What’s happening now?”